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Education

College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Celtic Studies, School of Education

Course overview

The School of Education is highly active in educational research and development, with several students enrolled in doctoral and masters degrees by research. The School has several research projects funded nationally and internationally, addressing key contemporary concerns and issues in education. The School's areas of research expertise include: adapted and special educational needs; bullying in schools; access, diversity and civic engagement in second and third-level education; gender issues in education; science education and public engagement in science; assessment policy and practice; educational technology (learning sciences); an multilingual education and literacy.

The salient characteristics of current research in the School of Education are its multi-disciplinary nature, links to other units within the University&emdashincluding the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and the Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI)—and a commitment to supporting practitioner research through school and community links.

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Seán
Duignan
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Past Student

I completed a PhD in Education at the National University of Ireland, Galway between 2006 and 2009, specialising in computer science education. Much of my research entailed practitioner-based enquiry and the supervisory guidance and mentoring I received in designing, implementing and analysing my interventions was outstanding. My experiences as a PhD researcher at NUIG's School of Education are overwhelming positive; I found it to be a welcoming and nurturing environment conducive to scholarly research.